Horsing around: Where to watch the Kentucky Derby

By Syd Kearney

on May 5, 2016 12:16 PM

EIGHT ROW FLINT

This Heights ice house is offering a Derby Day drink menu that includes $6 juleps noon-close on May 7. The drinks -- Eight Row Julep, the Coltivare Julep and the Pac-Rim Julep -- are made with Woodford Reserve, the official bourbon of the Kentucky Derby.

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This upscale steakhouse on Washington Avenue is doing a Derby party that includes $200 gift card prizes for best hat and best dressed man. The restaurant also is a "Champagne Derby Calcutta." The winner of that bet gets a dinner for six.

This Montrose sports bar is tossing a Derby party 2-6 p.m. May 7. In addition to offering mint juleps ($5-$8) and $5 Kentucky beers, Revelry is doing at "Too Hot to Trot" contest for the ladies and a "Dapper Dan" tie contest for the dudes.

From 4-7 p.m. May 7, this longtime Montrose dive bar will be celebrating the Kentucky Derby. There will be a hat contest for guys and girls. On the menu: $4 mint juleps, $4 frozen margaritas and $4 Kentucky Hot Browns.

Beginning at 2 p.m. May 7, this Montrose pub will be paying tribute to the Run for the Roses with best hat and best dressed contests. There will be plenty of prizes and surprises including mini horses.

The bar on the third floor of this posh hotel will host a Kentucky Derby watch party 3:30-7:30 p.m. May 7. In addition to the tradition mint julips ($10), the ktichen is making bourbon balls (for 21 and up only) for $2.

The Courtyard Bar at his Midtown restaurant will offer Derby-inspired drinks and bites 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday, May 7-8. Enjoy Hot Hot Chicken Sliders paired with the Mad Hatter cocktail for $20. Classic and modern takes on the julep also will be available. And guests wearing Derby-style hats will receive a complimentary Smoky Mary.

This Heights ice house is offering a Derby Day drink menu that includes $6 juleps noon-close on May 7. The drinks -- Eight Row Julep, the Coltivare Julep and the Pac-Rim Julep -- are made with Woodford Reserve, the official bourbon of the Kentucky Derby.